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Investigating Mars: Tithonium Chasma
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Investigating Mars: Tithonium Chasma

NASA / JPL · 2018-02-09 · photograph (digital archive)

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Tithonium Chasma has numerous large landslide deposits. The resistant material of the plateau surface forms the linear ridges of the canyon wall. Large landslides have changed the walls and floor of the canyon. A landslide is a failure of slope due to gravity. They initiate due to several reasons.

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Credit lineInvestigating Mars: Tithonium Chasma. NASA/JPL, 2018-02-09. Public domain. ID: PIA22271.

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